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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

February 14, 2000Monongalia County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Feb 14, 2000, 7:45 AM EST for Monongalia County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 14, 2000, 7:45 AM EST (12:45 UTC)
Expired
Feb 14, 2000, 10:45 AM EST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Monongalia County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 87 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2000-02-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2000-02-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 159 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
532 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
159 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
142 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS51 KPBZ 141247
FFWPBZ
WVC061-141545-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
745 AM EST MON FEB 14 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MONONGALIA COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA

* UNTIL 1045 AM EST

* AT 742 AM EST LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED FLOODING ON SEVERAL COUNTY
ROADS IN THE WESTERN PART OF MONONGALIA COUNTY. STATE ROUTE 7 WAS
REPORTED FLOODED BEAR BLACKSVILLE.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...AREAS WEST OF DAYBROOK...
BLACKSVILLE AND WADESTOWN.

<<CALL TO ACTION>>EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH
FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS]...AS WELL AS
FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.